REMAKE WAS BETTER

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Susanne Bier is one of the greatest European directors/screenwriters and her flick ”Brothers” had all the ingredients for a great drama. Plot about the wife that falls in love for the brother of a husband pronounced dead in Afghanistan is very interesting, but the acting and the development fall short of the expected.

Casting is superb in theory (Connie Nielsen, Nikolaj Lie Kass, Ulrich Thomssen), but actors are somehow tampered by partially predictable lines of the script as well as some weak motivations along the way.

This is one of the rare opportunities that the American remake (”Brothers” with Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman and Tobey Maguire) had succeeded in surpassing the European original.

BRODRE – 5/10